Introduction

StartR Workshop

Maik Bieleke, PhD

University of Konstanz

November 23, 2024

About me

About you

About the workshop

Goals

  • You know your way around R and RStudio.
  • You are familiar with the basic R syntax.
  • You know the most important data structures in R.
  • You have a workflow for project management.
  • You can import, explore, and visualize your data.
  • You can perform basic statistical analyses in R.

Day 1

🕘 09:00 - 12:00

  1. Introduction to the workshop (09:00 - 09:30)
  2. Getting started with R and RStudio (09:30 - 10:30)
  3. Building blocks of the R language (10:30 - 12:00)

🕐 13:00 - 16:00

  1. Working with scalars and vectors (13:00 - 14:30)
  2. Matrices and data frames (14:30 - 15:30)
  3. Wrap-up and Q&A (15:30 - 16:00)

Day 2

🕘 09:00 - 12:00

  1. Recap and real-world data (09:00 - 09:30)
  2. R Projects and Workflow (09:30 - 10:30)
  3. Merging, reshaping, aggregating data (10:30 - 12.00)

🕐 13:00 - 16:00

  1. Exploring and visualizing data (13:00 - 14:00)
  2. Hypothesis testing (14:00 - 15:30)
  3. Wrap-Up and looking forward (15:30 - 16:00)

Why R and RStudio?

Toolboxes for data processing

https://www.tidyverse.org/

State-of-the art data analysis

Bieleke et al. (2022, Table 4)

Beautiful data visualization

Bieleke et al. (2019, Figure 1)

Programming interactive applications

https://vnijs.shinyapps.io/radiant/

Designing presentations

Interactive notebooks

https://posit.co/blog/r-notebooks/

Authoring books and reports

https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/

AI-assisted coding

https://docs.posit.co/ide/user/ide/guide/tools/copilot.html

www.maikbieleke.com